02
May
How to Make a Clay Model of a Sabot
Go find a clean shoe, because today's homeschool handicraft is a clay model of a sabot - and I'm guessing you don't have a sabot laying around the house. This project is model #36 from the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin and it's part of our clay modelling series. What is a Sabot? The word sabot comes from the French term for a wooden shoe, typically carved from a single block of wood, and historically worn by peasants and workers. Nowadays a sabot would probably be made from leather, rubber, or some other synthetic material instead of wood, and...